R.I.P. Cory Lidle
By now anyone reading this knows about the incident in which former Mets and ‘current’ Yankees pitcher Cory Lidle was killed. The story has been all over the news in the last 24 plus hours. Nobody would confuse Lidle with Thurman Munson, the Yankees catcher and captain who lost his life in a place crash […]
Pythagorean Baseball
Anybody who has read this blog for a while knows that I don’t rely too heavily on stats. I’m into traditional stats and like to read about stats and sabermetrics and the like but I think people these days tend to over analyze things based on stats. So it was kind of odd for me […]
Yankee Fans: Wagner Used Mo’s Song
The pseudo controversy surrounding the music played when Billy Wagner enters games took an interesting turn yesterday. For those who didn’t know, Wagner came into the game with Metallica’s Enter Sandman playing over the Shea PA system. Yankee fans immediately took exception, berating Wagner for using the same song their beloved Mariano Rivera uses when […]
Favorite Damon Headline
My favorite headline on the Yankees’ signing of Johnny Damon comes from Statistically Speaking whose article is headlined Damon adds hair, wins to Yankees. The headline is incorrect, of course, since Damon will have to cut his hair per George Steinbrenner’s rules.
Damon is a Yankee
It’s been widely reported that Johnny Damon has followed in Wade Boggs’s footsteps and signed with the Yankees. This is obviously a tremendous deal for the Yankees. Not only does Damon leave the Red sox, the Yanks’ biggest competitors in their division, but he fills a gap in center field as well as covering the […]
Pitching and/or Defense?
Click here for a recap of Friday night’s game. Click here for a recap of Saturday’s game. Click here for a recap of yesterday’s game. Over the weekend the Mets proved the age old adage of baseball that pitching and defense wins games. Unfortunately they proved it by losing 2 out of 3 to the […]
Subway Series Stinks
The big Subway Series starts tonight as the Mets take on the Yankees for a three game weekend series that’s sure to be exciting for players and fans alike. Or so the MLB hype department and media would have you think. The bottom line is that the subway series stinks. Why? For one thing it […]
Star Wars Bound
Sorry for no real post today. I had a late morning and am going to Star Wars this afternoon. Aint’ life grand? In the meantime talk amongst yourselves. I’ll give you some topics. Aaron Heilman in the bullpen. VÃctor Zambrano starting against the Yankees. Pedro Martinez got a cortisone shot. Discuss.
Decisions, Decisions
It’s going to be an interesting next week or so for the Mets brass as they have alot of decisions to make. A couple of roster moves were made yesterday but they cloud the picture more than they clear it up. Kazuhisa Ishii was activated off of the 15-day disabled list to start tonight’s game […]
Notes from a Gameless Thursday
Our friend Ken Rosenthal at FoxSports.com has some more Mets dish today. In his latest online column Rosenthal discusses teams who are interested in Mike Cameron. According to Rosenthal the Padres have the stronget interest in Cameron who has been on a tear. Since coming off the DL last week the Mets center fielder turned […]
